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Why African-Americans Smoke Weed: The Root of the Problem.
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Topic Started: Dec 9 2015, 09:26 AM (949 Views)
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Rick1
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Dec 9 2015, 10:39 AM
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So, why does almost every other culture smoke weed? And what's the root of their problem? I'm trying to figure out why people here want to say how much of a good guy UTB is, yet he is constantly starting threads to make you wonder his motives and question who he really is. I have never seen a black man his age that get a kick out of searching the web daily for anything that negatively reflects who he is. 77 y/o's don't do that.
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Dec 9 2015, 10:40 AM
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So, why does almost every other culture smoke weed? And what's the root of their problem?
Doing drugs of any kind and drinking starts from family issues. Particularly involving the mother. In some cases, it doesn't begin until some point in the adulthood, but in most cases it starts in the childhood. When children don't get the solar energy they require from their mother, something else has to fill in for the gap, and it's usually indulgence in gratifications. That involving sex, hanging with others, and drugs.
So that's why you smoked for 12 yrs? Yeah.
It started from issues I suffered revolving around my mother.
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Dec 9 2015, 10:49 AM
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So, why does almost every other culture smoke weed? And what's the root of their problem?
Doing drugs of any kind and drinking starts from family issues. Particularly involving the mother. In some cases, it doesn't begin until some point in the adulthood, but in most cases it starts in the childhood. When children don't get the solar energy they require from their mother, something else has to fill in for the gap, and it's usually indulgence in gratifications. That involving sex, hanging with others, and drugs.
So that's why you smoked for 12 yrs?
Yeah. It started from issues I suffered revolving around my mother. Could it have been that you just wanted to do it instead of issues with your Mother. I was 26 years old when I started smoking cigarettes but it had nothing to do with my Mother nor her desire that I not do it.
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kennyinbmore
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Dec 9 2015, 10:51 AM
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I was a pot head for 12 years straight in my youth
Now it all makes sense
Shut up. Asshole.
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UTB
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Dec 9 2015, 10:51 AM
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Actually, growing "hemp" is nothing new, As a matter of fact, the US Dept of Agriculture helped the farmers to grow it during WW2!
http://www.hempfarm.org/Papers/Hemp_Facts.html
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HEMP FACTS
What is hemp and why is everybody talking about it?
Here are a few facts to feed your head...
For Starters:
-Farmers around the world grow hemp. Legally. And they've been doing so for thousands of years. View a timeline of hemp throughout history here.
-Hemp is a plant grown from a seed. It can get up to 15 to 20 or so feet tall. It is an annual, herbaceous, long fibre plant similar to flax (linen), jute and ramie.
-It's the sister plant to marijuana but it won't get you high. However, it's good at doing almost anything else except making you 'high'. You'll learn more about its versatility in this document.
-Although hemp and marijuana are both from the cannabis species, hemp contains virtually no THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.) If you smoke hemp you will likely get a headache. You will not get 'high'. Its THC level is less than 1%, whereas marijuana may contain between 5 - 15%.[iii]
-Its seeds are pressed for oil that can be used for food (salad dressings, supplements, etc.), industrial lubrication, diesel fuel, paints, varnishes and more.
-Hemp is a distinct variety of the plant species cannabis sativa L. [ii]
-Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. [iv]
-The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a piece of Mesopotamian hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.[v]
-For more than a century, hemp was legal tender to pay American taxes.[vi]
-Over 600,000 acres of hemp grow worldwide today.[vii] Over 8,500 acres were grown in Canada in 2008.[viii]
-The 2002 figures for global hemp sales were US$250 million. US$150 million in the United States alone.[ix]
-The HIA (Hemp Industries Association) is confident that the total North American hemp food and body care market in 2008 accounted for at least $100 million in retail sales. In 2005-2008, hemp food sales have averaged 47% annual growth, making hemp one of the fastest-growing natural food categories. Source.
Legality:
-For the first 162 years of America's existence, marijuana was totally legal and hemp was a common crop. But during the 1930s, the U.S. government and the media began spreading outrageous lies about marijuana, which led to its prohibition. ("Marijuana: The devil's weed with roots in hell", "Marijuana makes fiends of boys in 30 days", “Reefer Madness”, etc.) It was banned in the USA under the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. In a blatant case of mistaken identity, industrial hemp was banned along with it.[x]
-It is said that the motivation for the hemp ban was that new processing technologies were developed that made it a potential competitor with the newly founded synthetic fibre and plastics industries. Hemp's potential for producing paper also posed a threat to the timber and oil industries. Evidence suggests that commercial interests, having much to lose from hemp competition, helped propagate the reefer madness hysteria and used their influence to lobby for Marijuana Prohibition. It is debatable at to whether special interests conspired to destroy the hemp industry via Marijuana Prohibition, but evidence exists to raise the possibility.[xi]
-In Canada, parliament passed Bill C-8 in May of 1997, freeing industrial hemp from the drug legislation imposed in 1938 when Canada’s Opium and Narcotics Control Act followed the United States’ lead and banned hemp production. The responsibilities to regulate the “new” crop were given to Health Canada. [xii] (The UK lifted its ban in 1993.[xiii])
-It is currently illegal to grow industrial hemp for food, oil, paper or fabric in the USA, but it is perfectly legal to export hemp to the U.S. and to process, consume and wear it there. [xv]
Versatiliy:
-A Popular Mechanics article from 1938 stated that over 25,000 different products could be made from hemp in oil, seed or fibre form.[xvi]
-Used for thousands of years by a wide variety of cultures, hemp is currently being used worldwide in industries such as fabric, food, bio-diesel fuel, paper, plastics, rope, building material, molded panels, car components, wallpaper, acoustic baffling and barn bedding for farm animals.[xvii]
-125 years ago, 70 to 90 percent of all rope, twine, cordage, ship sails, canvas, fibre, cloth, etc., was made out of hemp fibre. It was replaced by Dupont’s then newly discovered petrochemical fibre (nylon) beginning in 1937. [xviii]
Farming:
-The hemp plant is highly resistant to most insect and disease, largely eliminating the need for most (or all) pesticides and herbicides.[xix]
-No herbicides have been approved for industrial hemp. Early planting, as soon as the soil is warm enough, is a recommended weed control strategy.[xx]
-A normal stand of 200 to 300 plants per square meter shades out weeds, leaving the fields weed-free at harvest and covered in leaves that improve the soil in a self-mulching eco-system.[xxi]
-Industrial hemp can be grown on a wide variety of soil types, but tends to grow best on land that produces high yields of corn.[xxii]
-Hemp prefers a mild climate, humid atmosphere, and a rainfall of at least 25-30 inches per year. [xxiii]
-A hemp field produces a very large bulk of plant material in a short period of time. (Stalks can reach 15 feet tall in 70-90 growing days)[xxiv] [xxv]
-Yields can reach between 3 to 7 tons of dry hemp fibre stalk per acre.[xxvi]
-HEMP IS THE NUMBER ONE biomass producer on planet earth: 10 tons per acre in approximately four months. It is a woody plant containing 77% cellulose. Wood produces 60% cellulose.[xxvii]
-Low abrasion means low impact on farm equipment and workers hands. [xxviii]
-Hemp was one of Canada's first agricultural exports when the fibre was sold to Britain and France for use in their navies. It was common practice for tracts of land to be issued to settlers in Canada on the provision that they grow hemp.[xxix]
-During World War II the U.S. government relaxed the anti-hemp laws and spurred mid-western farmers to grow over a million acres of the plant for the war effort. “Hemp For Victory” was the name of the informational film made by U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1942.[xxx] Decades later they denied they ever made the film. This was disproven by researchers in 1989 when they found evidence of it at the Library of Congress.[xxxi]
-Of all the hemp grown in Canada, almost all of it was for seed, oil and construction material. Little went to the fabric industry. Most fabric is imported from China and Europe. [xxxii] See Canadian farming acreage stats here.
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Dec 9 2015, 10:53 AM
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So, why does almost every other culture smoke weed? And what's the root of their problem?
I'm trying to figure out why people here want to say how much of a good guy UTB is, yet he is constantly starting threads to make you wonder his motives and question who he really is. I have never seen a black man his age that get a kick out of searching the web daily for anything that negatively reflects who he is. 77 y/o's don't do that. I keep telling you guys. U ain't black
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cisslybee2012
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Dec 9 2015, 10:57 AM
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So, why does almost every other culture smoke weed? And what's the root of their problem?
Doing drugs of any kind and drinking starts from family issues. Particularly involving the mother. In some cases, it doesn't begin until some point in the adulthood, but in most cases it starts in the childhood. When children don't get the solar energy they require from their mother, something else has to fill in for the gap, and it's usually indulgence in gratifications. That involving sex, hanging with others, and drugs.
So that's why you smoked for 12 yrs?
Yeah. It started from issues I suffered revolving around my mother.
Could it have been that you just wanted to do it instead of issues with your Mother. I was 26 years old when I started smoking cigarettes but it had nothing to do with my Mother nor her desire that I not do it. Firstly,
A cigarette isn't a drug.
And secondly,
I know what caused me to start smoking pot. And I know what triggers all other kids to do it, and join gangs and so forth. It has to do with familial problems revolving around the mother.
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Dec 9 2015, 10:58 AM
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So, why does almost every other culture smoke weed? And what's the root of their problem?
I'm trying to figure out why people here want to say how much of a good guy UTB is Negro. Please.
That's your dumbazz racist crew, claiming that, among it's members who hate Black males. Yep, so please be honest and make that distinction here.
Whereas me?
I've been telling you sorryAZZ lames, since 2011, that UTB is a lowdown conniving White man who hates Black people...as I have witnessed this same gibberish from him since 2004.
but hey since You lame fuccs decided yall would rather make sure you are angry, at me, than to make sure yall expose a sick vile racist in your cliq; Enjoy that fossil!
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Dec 9 2015, 10:58 AM
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A cigarette isn't a drug.
You idiot.
Nicotine is an addictive drug.
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Dec 9 2015, 11:12 AM
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Oldest trick n the book!
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